Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission - Full Text View

Sponsored by:	Jacobi Medical Center
Information provided by:	Jacobi Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00553111

Purpose

During the winter of 2007, the Syphilis Advisory Group and Bureau of STD Control of the NYC Department of Health funded the Emergency Department of Jacobi Medical Center to further evaluate the effectiveness of the Syphilis and Men video in additional settings where men access STD related information and testing and where high-risk groups, such as MSM, frequent. The video was evaluated for promoting knowledge of syphilis, especially as facilitator of HIV transmission, and in encouraging concurrent testing (syphilis and HIV) among men recruited from a community-based organization, an ambulatory care setting, and a dance club.

Condition	Intervention
Syphilis	Other: educational video

MedlinePlus related topics: AIDS Syphilis

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind (Investigator), Placebo Control, Factorial Assignment
Official Title:	Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission

Further study details as provided by Jacobi Medical Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The primary outcome was the score on a 10-question measure designed to assess knowledge attained from the syphilis educational video [ Time Frame: 20 minutes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

A secondary outcome was the decision to be tested for syphilis and HIV [ Time Frame: 20 minutes ]

Enrollment:	168
Study Start Date:	November 2006
Study Completion Date:	April 2007

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1: Experimental pre survey, intervention, post test survey	Other: educational video educational video
2: No Intervention pre test survey and post test survey
3: Experimental video intervention and post test survey	Other: educational video educational video
4: No Intervention post test survey

Detailed Description:

The Solomon-four group design was applied to assess the effectiveness of the video in raising syphilis knowledge among participants, while controlling for the influence of the pre-test knowledge survey in skewing post-knowledge survey scores. Participants in Group 1 received a pre-test survey, the video intervention, and the post-test survey; Group 2 received the pre-test and post-test surveys; Group 3 received the video intervention and post-test survey; and Group 4 received the post-test survey only. A computer-generated randomization list was used to assign participants to one of the four groups.

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

must speak english or spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

excluded if hearing or visually impaired

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00553111

Locations

United States, New York
New York University Ambulatory Care Pavilion
Manhattan, New York, United States, 10010
Gay Men of African Descent
Manhattan, New York, United States, 10035

Sponsors and Collaborators

Jacobi Medical Center

Investigators

Principal Investigator:	Chinazo Cunningham, MD	Montefiore Medical Center
Principal Investigator:	John Sanchez, MD, MPH	Montefiore Medical Center

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	06-09390
Study First Received:	November 2, 2007
Last Updated:	November 2, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00553111
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Jacobi Medical Center:

syphilis
video education
knowledge
black
hispanic

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Genital Diseases, Female
Bacterial Infections
HIV Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Genital Diseases, Male
Syphilis
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
Treponemal Infections
Spirochaetales Infections
Infection

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009